When I was in second grade I knew 3 Storms. I thought it was a normal name. I also thought “Yugoslavia” was one of the largest countries in the world due to the large numbers of refugees where I lived, but that’s another story. None of the Storms were from former Yugoslavia, by the way.
Friend has a two year old named Arrayna. If they have a boy next it will be Kaegan. Odd names.
I’ve said it before, I went to school with a Binky and Diva who were best friends. Poor Binky, it’s not even like that was a cute nickname, that’s her proper First name.
I also know a family who have 7 kids…the 3rd and 5th are both girls and are named Crystal and Jemima…the rest of the kids have slightly more normal names.
When my sister was in Australia she met some guy from a large Byron Bay hippie family- he and all of his many siblings were named after elves in the Silmarillion…all of them, needless to say, go by nicknames.
Odd spelling for Arianna, maybe? It took me a second to figure it out. Arianna isn’t all that odd, but ‘Arrayna’ is a complicated spelling. That’s what I hate - taking a regular name and mangling the spelling.
My six-year-old daughter has a classmate named Peerless. I feel offended for my kid, somehow.
BTW, I think it is telling that one of the ads is for a naked teenager with a webcam.
I don’t remeber if I got this link from this board or another, but it definitely is relevant to this discussion Baby’s named a Bad, Bad Thing
I once filled out a form for a perfectly normal and friendly 11 year old named Tommy, and when I asked him for his last name, he said “anus”.
“What?”
–“anus”, he says again. “Tommy Anus”
“Uhh, how do you spell that,Tommy?”
–and he answers: “A-n-n-e-s”.
Hey, I lived on Kwaj back in the 70’s, had a great time. Everything was sorta free. Good times.
I knew a family that had about five kids, and named two of their three sons John, no middle name. Thought this was odd, but in light of George Foreman, mebbe not.
People my parents know named their daughter Sappho.
oh yeah and my mom had students named Della and AfterDella.
My dad does this, but first syllables only until he reaches the name he wants. It wasn’t uncommon to hear “Sa-La-Me-Lissa!” with increasing emphasis as he ran through the names. Our next door neighbors had five kids, all K names. We used to joke about what that sounded like in their house: “Ka-Ka-Kr-Ka-Keith!”
I knew a girl named Serendipity – goes by Seren – who was conceived before her parents were married. I thought it was a nice way to make sure she knew that she was wanted.
Oh, my.
In the data entry job I had last summer, I ran through lots of bizarre names. There was one woman who lived in northern Alaska named Future Blu’Silver. Her parents would have been the right age for hippies, so I guess that’s where that came from. There was also a woman named something like Zhhaniqua, I think I have that name wrong but the beginning was definitely “Zhh.” But my favorite name was Howard James. For a girl. A seven-year-old, cute as a button little blond girl. She’s gonna have issues.
I think I’ve posted this before, but here it is again.
My mom and sister were on vacation when they encountered another man at their hotel. He had twin little boys, blond and cute and very well-mannered. My mentioned how nice they were and the guy replied, “Yeah, ol’ Willie and Waylon are two of the best boys you could want.” Mom and Sis quickly agreed and went about their business.
Does “binky” in Ireland mean, as it does in the U.S., a rubber nipple that you use to pacify infants?
Yeah, nobody’s gonna think of a way to make fun of a girl who’s named after something to be suckled. I got nothin’.
For a short (but amusing!) time my twin brother and sister, Anna and Tommy, thought their names were Tanna and Ant-Tommy.
At my last job I ran into an older couple from south California with two young boys named John Lynx LastName and Mark Possum LastName, and they called the kids by their middle names. They thought they would like to move to central Oregon because we’re “outdoorsy” here and their boys would fit in and not be teased so much. 
Outside of the metro areas Oregon is very rural and conservative and full of farmer/logger/fisherman hicks. Poor kids
You know what makes it worse?
Her name is Binky Moorehead.
Yup.
Binky.
More.
Head.
I forsee a career in show business…well, a career performing on film anyway.
My daughter has students in her class named Divinity, Blessings, Unikue, and I don’t know what all else.
I don’t mind the Divinity and Blessings ones so much. Unikue is anything but. What bothers me is the mis-spellings of common names: Katelyn, Caitlin; Ashleigh, Ashley etc. I know one Katelynne and two Caitlinns, one Meaghann and one Megan.
Argh.
Phaedra? giggles
(maybe asking Phèdre nó Delaunay would be in order)
Hey, I used to work in a trophy shop. I saw every hackneyed and over-used child’s name a dozen times, often on the same Little League team. It got so bad we had to ask the parents to explicitly denote which Hunters, Dylans, Montanas, Madisons, Rileys, Alexes, Jadens, and Jameses were male and which were female.
Then we had dozens of Calebs, Jacobs, Crystals, and Emmas to deal with.
And after that we still had parents frantically correcting their lists like some modern-day “Who’s On First?”: “Okay, we have Kalleb Smith, Cayleb Jones, Caleb Brown, and Kailob French. That’s the infield. Oh, and Kalleb Smith is a girl.”
Now I work in medical billing. Not as many Calebs or Emmas or Jacobs or Hunters, but (since this was a very popular name in 1950) about a thousand different ways to spell Katherine (Kathryn, Cathren, Khatheryne, etc).